A neat bit of trivia about the actor that plays Michael Scott's boss, CFO David Wallace in NBC's "The Office": A Stanford alum, Andy Buckley actually has a full time job in real life as a wealth management advisor at "a leading investment bank and wealth-management advisory firm in Los Angeles" and his David Wallace role is actually a side gig.
In 2001, Buckley gave up acting and switched careers. He filmed what he thought was one of his final roles on an episode of “NYPD Blue” and showed up for training at a leading investment bank two weeks later. Still employed at the firm more than eight years later, Buckley said he is unable to disclose its name due to company policy. (His company is fine with his side gig, he said, but he has to run everything, including this interview and scripts, by compliance.)His surprising turn as a minor character on “The Office” happened almost by accident, Buckley said. While at a local farmer’s market, he ran into the show’s casting director, who had tried to find roles for him in the past. She asked for his card, and nine months later, invited him to audition for the part of Dunder Mifflin’s CFO.
Unemployed actors and bankers hate this guy.